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Oh, so just click through it. There would have been I'll let her know. >> Yes. All right, everybody. It's 9:00. I ask that you get settled in and let's

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get this uh show on the road, please. Waiting on one more council member, Mr. Play. You've made us complete. Now we can get started. Thank you. >> All right. Good morning. It's going a minute past 9 on Tuesday, April 28th.

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Now call to session the city council work session. Uh first up, report from the city manager, Jay. >> Good morning everyone. Um under upcoming and recent events, I just want to remind everyone that today's the last day for early voting and Saturday is the election for both our bond and uh

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charter. Under organizational updates and employee recognitions, I'd like to call on Marilyn Marvin uh to recognize the property management department's fleet team who uh received an award.

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Okay. Is Marilyn here? >> Game change. >> Oh, there is Valerie Washington, assistant city man. >> J, I apologize. If we could move this recognition to the next work session. >> Okay, we'll do that. >> Next up, I'd like to call up Sana Sedana

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here. There she is. I couldn't see her. uh she's going to present the uh the we've we've now been a gone to text 311 and we have a short video showcasing uh the new availability of that service. Is there sound

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>> on emergency services such as street conditions, park maintenance, or any other city service. Simply text your request to 817311 and let our team assist you. Once you see an issue, simply type in what you see. Text message will create a service request in my Fort Worth. And when the request is

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closed, you'll even receive a text telling you what was done to complete the request. Forwardware services with one simple text. Text 817311 anytime, 247. >> Council, good morning. If you all have any questions, we're happy to answer, but we're really excited about this

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feature. Assistant director Sharon Gamble and her team worked really hard to provide this capability. Um, just another way for us to improve quality of life for our residents. >> So, when is this scheduled to be online or is it already active? >> Implemented. >> Wonderful. Well, I know that's going to

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help me a lot because frequently, you know, I'm sure others are like this. We drive by something, we see something, yes, we might have the Fort Worth app loaded on our phone, but if we can't stop or pull over, get a voice, text, and um get this reported. I like it. >> Okay. Senator, what's the response time

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on him? >> Response time. I'm happy to bring up Sharon to answer that question. >> Good morning. Um, it's the same as entering it on the app. So, it goes immediately to the work order system.

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>> Yeah. And it's it's I like it because it's a conversation. You're having a conversation. Tell it everything you know or want to request and it will figure it out. >> All right. Any questions? Alan.

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>> So, they're doing this interchange over text message. Do they get a confirmation number? >> Yes, they do. >> Thank you. >> And they get the results when it closes. >> Super impressive. >> Uh I was just curious, is this a bot or a live person on the other end answering? >> It's a bot.

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>> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Any other questions? Everyone? Good. Thank you. Appreciate that. >> Welcome. >> Next up, our informal reports. The first is the uh fiscal year 25 midyear update for residential solid waste conductions.

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And Jim Keyasel, Environmental Services, is here to answer any questions. >> Anyone have any questions for Jim regarding waste services? Anyone? Good, Charlie? >> Uh, next one is illegal street racing, reckless driving, and street takeover activity. Uh, and Sean Jura, police

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deputy chief, is here to answer any questions. >> Okay, since uh, Deputy Chief Gura is already on his way up, I'll call him up. >> Yeah, I would like an update off. Yeah, if you could give us an overview of this IR, sir. >> Good morning, Mayor Pro Tim, council,

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and staff. I'm Deputy Chief Sean Kjura. I'm here to answer your questions on street racing. All right. >> Um, as you see in the informal report, uh, we have had some recent activity uh that we addressed, including a seizure

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and arrest of one of the organizers. Uh, this problem goes back to 2020. Uh we saw significant increases uh during COVID uh 2022 2023. Uh we all remember the news reports all over the metroplex

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where kids were in the middle of the intersection, stuff like that. We're not really seeing that uh now. We're seeing more isolated incidents in parking lots and places like that. Um there are a few that will hit some intersections at

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times, some venues near the stockyards, but overall we've been working really well with our partners across the metroplex, other police departments, uh and tracking these groups. Once they start moving, if they're active in Dallas, Ulus, Hurst, Bedford, Grand

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Prairie, it kind of spins up and we follow them. Um any questions about what we're doing or >> questions for council members? Sean, I just feel compelled to ask you a question because it's my last work session.

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>> I'm I'm here for you, sir. >> Can uh of the cars that are confiscated, are those primarily owned by the driver or have they been stolen vehicles or otherwise? >> So, the ones we confiscate generally are owned by the driver. Have we come across

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stolen vehicles? Yes, we have. and we follow the normal process of returning that stolen vehicle. >> Jeff, >> how do we address um these incidents when it comes to like ATVs or motorbikes

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and you know it's a lot younger. We're going to be talking about that in the next public safety committee, but to touch on it um much in the same way, but it's a little bit more difficult when you're dealing with the two- wheeled vehicles

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and those smaller, more maneuverable vehicles. We still have a large response. We still organize and address as a team uh individually. If we if we start running through neighborhoods and stuff, that gets pretty dangerous. and

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and you're looking generally those those people that are doing that behavior are kids. So we approach that less aggressively, more thoughtfully because we're dealing with, you know, groups of kids and uh our response is

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based on the activity. If we have three or four kids running, we're going to handle that as delicately as possible. Work with the parents, talk to them, educate them on the law. If we have 50 or 60 that include young adults, teenagers, we're going to address that

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as as more of a criminal offense type situation. >> Okay. So, um I'm assuming you're planning like an educational campaign. Any plans to work with the school district? I >> I didn't hear you. >> Uh I'm assuming that y'all are going to be working on an educational campaign. I've seen stuff in the past in North

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Side, but um are we going any plans to work with the school district? >> Definitely as summer comes out. I've already been working with the police department's expert, officer Paige, to put out some flyers to let people know what is legal to drive and where and

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where it's legal to drive cuz we have a lot of different ebikes. We have a lot of different scooters that are legal. But then when you get into the off-road a uh like ATV site and the larger dirt bike, those are illegal everywhere except off-road. So, yes, we are working

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towards an educational campaign. >> Awesome. Thank you. And if you could share that uh those materials with us, we'd love to >> share those as well. >> Okay. >> All right, Michael. >> You good? All right. Anyone else? >> All right. >> Thank you, Deputy Chief. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you'all.

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>> Uh next up is the impact of Senate Bill 108 and House Bill 2844 on regulating mobile food vending. And Wendy Turban from Environmental Services here to answer any questions. >> Okay. Yes. Wendy, could you come up?

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Council member Hill would like to receive an overview. >> Yes. Thank you, Wendy. >> Good morning. So, the impact of 2844 is that the state is taking over the regulation um with through the Department of State Health Services of

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all mobile food trucks across the state of Texas. However, the Department of State Health Services, otherwise known as DSHS, is allowing um municipalities and counties and health districts to collaborate with them much like a

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contract and uh be allowed to conduct the inspections and permitting through the state and then the state will reimburse them uh individual municipalities for the cost of that program. Um in 2023

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we already gave the mobile food vending regulatory authority to Tarant County. We were one of the test counties and then in 2025 legislative session the state went ahead and moved forward with with doing that within everyone in the

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state of Texas. As for SB 10008 that just adjusted the fees that we are allowed to charge. It actually had a little bit to do with mobile vendors, but mostly it was all of the health permits within uh the food regulations within the state of Texas.

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>> Standalone restaurants and mobile vendors. >> Um mobile vendors are handled by the state of Texas. We still have the regulatory authority over all of our brickandmortar restaurants for sure. >> Thank you for the clarity. >> Uh Michael and then Elizabeth.

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uh I how does this affect uh festivals etc as part of this? The reason I ask is the food and wine festival every year when they each of those individual vendors has to be uh have a permit etc. But then we also require permitting on top of that is my understanding. So

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would this negate us having to have them having to have a separate city permit as part of a festival atmosphere? >> So does it negate the need for a temporary health permit? No, it does not. Um, the mobile food vendors, the the ones with the trailers that have an

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annual health permit with now with the state of Texas or previously with Tarant County were allowed to operate and there were no additional fees. If you're setting up a tent and it's a a temporary service much like what was happening at um the Fort Worth Food and Wine Festival or Main Street Arts Festival, we still

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uh charge a a fee for that, $52. And then we also have the regulatory authority to inspect and ensure that that food is safe. It depends on how they're providing the food on whether or not we have that regulatory authority. >> Elizabeth,

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>> in the IR it says that um that the state is allowing some counties to perform that service. Do you know if Tarant County is one of those counties that is looking to provide that service or is the city of Fort Worth looking to provide that service? My concern is the

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state doesn't tend to do things well and centralizing what is very local doesn't seem very efficient and I want to make sure that when people eat at food trucks in Fort Worth that they're not getting sick. And so are we going to be one of

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those cities that seeks to to implement that um regulation on behalf of the the state? So, right now, my colleague Sabrina Vidari has indicated with Tarant County that they will be operating um or planning on operating in conjunction with the state and offering those

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permits. We have not made a policy decision on whether or not the city of Fort Worth proceeds to do that. The last couple of years, Tarant County has has been a great partner with us. We'll find out more May 1st as uh regulations get solidified and we have more information

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from DSHS on how the reimbursement occurs. Um right now we're not sure if it is uh financially feasible or appropriate for us to do it. But we're waiting on some more information and we should have um some more information in the next week or two to be able to make an informed decision.

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>> Question. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Yes. Go ahead. So, I I have a question with regards to and and this may not pertain, but when it comes to like food trucks and where they're stored and where we're parking them, where we're operating them, are those regulations set by us here in the

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at the city? So, yes, many of the way, excuse me, let me start again. The zoning regulations address that for the most part. And a lot of the uh neighborhoods that have HOAs uh their deed restrictions also address whether or not they can be parked um in the in

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the neighborhoods etc etc. And then of course we do have rightaway regulations that are enforced by the police department. So many different aspects address where mobile vendors can park and operate. >> And so um as far as like what we would consider operating and things like that,

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what is where is that spelled out? I mean it's operating preparing food in your food truck outside of a residence. It's operating just selling the food outside of your food truck. Who sets um the terminology or definitions for what I guess in this case operating would be?

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So, the Texas food establishment rules um defines that regulation uh within what exactly a food establishment is and that is a state law um that we have the regulatory authority to enforce outside of mobile food vendors which is now

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DSHS. Um and and we do have zoning rules that also address that too um on whether or not you can operate on the right of way. So, the specific address that you're referencing, um, they are not allowed to prepare food on

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the street. Um, and this unit does park on the street. They are aware of that and so far we've been able to to keep it under control, but we are always willing to address complaints when they come in. >> Okay. And so the proper place to address those complaints just if if there's a resident in the situation, you know what

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I'm referring to. But if you could be more specific just to educate if there are residents who have issues with regards to food truck operators within their residential neighborhoods, their street, you know, their neighbors, who is the appropriate person for them to contact initially?

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You can always initially contact us at the environmental services department through 3921234 and we if we cannot address it ourselves we will absolutely facilitate and ensure that it is addressed by the appropriate party be it the police department. >> Okay.

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>> So thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> I I have one before you go out there. uh you know the the suspension of the city's um you know task force to do these inspections especially after hours is a bit of a concern for me because as

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you probably recall we we talked regularly about mobile food vendors that roll in after hours case in point stockyards for instance and I get complaints about it they're operating they're not supposed to be here >> we incur I guess overtime you know for

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for doing this >> in your opinion how effective or not effective ive would this new arrangement be in dealing with afterhour mobile food vendors? >> In order to address the afterhour food vendors, we would um it would be

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necessary for us to to become a contractor with uh DSHS. I don't think that's the right term, but um otherwise we would not have the authority to conduct inspections without collaborating with DSHS. So if that is a a decision and you guys would like to

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move forward with that, then we would have to consider becoming a contractor or the appropriate term with DSHS. >> Okay, Jay, what would be the appropriate way for council to consider embarking on such a >> Well, I think it as Wendy said, in the next week or two, we're going to get

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more more full picture because the full regulations are going to drop, I believe, at the end of the week. >> True. And so we could go through there and then we could come up with options and recommendations to the council since it sounds like there's interest in that. >> Yes, I think so. All right. Thank you, Wendy.

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>> Thank you. >> Okay. Thanks, Wendy. Next up, proposed fee for missed or skipped building inspections on permitted development pro projects. And assistant director Evan Roberts is here from development services. >> Yeah, I've got some comments on this

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particular IR. All right, >> Evan, I appreciate you putting it together. Um, I will tell you this is not uh what I was hoping to get out of this IR see from staff. Um, what I see in this IR is a lot of, well, we've always done it a certain way and other

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people don't do it that way, so we probably shouldn't do it that way, >> but I want us to do it differently. I want us to set the standard for how we deal with with um with people who aren't following our rules. Also, I asked for um a dual system. I think that there's a

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distinct difference between um an Elizabeth Beck who, you know, wants to do some electrical work and goes and gets a permit versus Alan Bllelock, Inc. who puts herself out as a a a person, you know, an agent on behalf of these

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builders. They're professionals. We we look to them. They're the third party. So, I do think that they should be held at a um a higher level of of a higher standard than regular job blows in the in the community. Um explain to me this

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$200 an hour for work concealed. So, how are we how are we going to build that? How does that work? Walk me through I'm building a house. I don't get the um foundation inspected. I don't get the framing inspected. So I miss two

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inspections that I'm supposed to get. What happens under this scenario? >> So in this scenario when you miss an inspection then we require um generally a forensic engineering report you know they'll go out X-ray at ultrasound some way um review the documents for how it was constructed and then or a framing

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same sort of thing right whatever it takes we will often times require them to remove insulation or whatever. So the time that it takes the executive staff like myself specifically to review the docu the engineers report that's those are the that is what we're going to

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charge them the $200 an hour on. >> And who compiles the engineer report? Do we or do they? >> They do. >> Okay. So we're just reviewing their engineering report. Correct. >> But we require them to get that yes >> supplemental report if they missed an inspection. Okay. Um and so so the fine

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in this would be the hours worked. >> Correct. Do we think that that's significant to deter my my real concern here are these third parties that we have doing this work that know better and those are really who um ironically

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seem to be the bigger issue here than the individuals and so what I want is a system that >> deters them and then punishes them because we rely on them we rely on their word >> absolutely and so the the issue or

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that's a tough nut to crack, right? If the because ultimately the onus is on the contractor to schedule the inspection, whether they schedule that with us or they schedule that with a third party company. So if they don't schedule with a third party company, we're we're back in the same place where

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the only people we can punish is the contractor doing the work. And so same same will apply if so from but from a third party I I will share with you that just couple weeks ago I met with all the third party companies and explained to them went through their contracts all

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their obligations explained to them that they can be sanctioned and the individual employees that miss can be you know sanctioned or or suspended from working or the entire company can be suspended. So if it becomes if we're seeing systemic problems with a company with either an individual or a company that we can suspend them, we have that

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right as part of our contract. They're contracted with us. So to address the third party companies now, our the goal here as we were reviewing like what happens when you miss an inspection, we we found this hole in our ordinance that are are fees that don't allow us to

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really effectively recoup or or punish that. Like there's per if you don't get a permit at all, we have a system for that. But if you have a permit but just don't get the inspections, that's where we found this hole and that's where we're seeking to close with the the $200 fee.

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>> Okay. Um so then walk me through um the difference between uh I don't get a permit for work and I don't get an inspection for work. >> Okay. So if you don't say if a cont if somebody just starts work and doesn't get pull a permit at all, right, the the

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fee for that is double the permit fee. It's an investigation for the work that they've already started. same sort of concept where you we're going to inspect, we have to play catch-up on it. And so that's you just double the fee. You a investigation fee equal to the

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permit fee. So it's basically 200% of the permit fee when you when you actually come and get the permit. This one if you have if you got the permit but just didn't call the inspections, that's where we're we're looking to close that gap. >> Thank you. Certainly >> Macy

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>> Evan uh when you do find violations do they have a time limit to where they can correct a violation and you know where I'm going to go with this next question but specifically regarding the inspection process is there a time limit >> so we it's progressive right the when we

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find someone typically and and it's typical every we we try not to use a one-sizefits-all approach right if it's an egregious if it's it's an agreed violation that's dangerous and going to hurt people. We sort of take immediately shut it down, come get a permit. If it's, you know, to

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council member Beex say, you know, I just didn't understand. I didn't know. I wasn't supposed to do it. We start with 10 days. Then we go back out and assuming in an ideal scenario, they didn't know. We give them 10 days. They come start the permitting process and then we just sort of routinely follow up until they have the permit and we can

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start the actual inspection process. um if they so we give them 10 days if they are like hey you know the insurance company or or whatever extenduating circumstances we'll give them another 10 days and then after that it's 3 days and then we start into the enforcement citation process to when they when when

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it becomes clear they're mistaking our kindness for weakness then we start the enforcement process >> great and then for those that have pulled building permits they start building and then they stop building we don't have a process or I guess explain to me if we do have a process on how do we help continue that project move along

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so we don't homes that are vacant, unfinished, sitting on lots. >> So there are we have looked I looked into this there are lots of sort of legal tangles in compelling someone to finish a project. Um as norm

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under general circumstances whoever the lender is like they want normally the market takes care of this. From the city's perspective, our ability to compel someone to finish a building permit, we just don't have the tools. >> I think it'd be helpful just to an IR

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followup on building permits, the process, what we can and can't do in our ordinance, just so we could dig a little bit deeper into that. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You have a question. Yeah. No, I think I would concur with uh Councilwoman uh Hill with regards to like what

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ultimately happens when someone starts a project, a commercial project. They didn't get the proper permitting. We wait and we wait and we wait and it may happen, it may never happen. And so we have a structure sitting on a corner

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>> somewhere that's, you know, in someone's neighborhood, >> right? ultimately at the end of this story and how long is the story? Um what happens? Does it just sit there and fall dilapitated? Do we just I just kind of want to know where that story ends? So

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that >> and that might be part of the IR >> and maybe that in we've had we our enforcement actions are are very difficult in those cases where we can go after them and we see injunctions and eventually if it becomes dilapidated if

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it becomes an unsafe structure then there's an avenue to have it renewed rem exc excuse me removed my understanding is until such time as it like if it can be secured until it becomes comes an unsafe structure. We don't have a lot of

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options short of getting injunctions and getting a court order and then removing it, but that takes years. >> All right. Any questions going around? Okay. Thank you, Evan. >> Thank you. >> That concludes our informal reports. >> All right. Thank you, Jay. Uh next up,

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we have questions regarding uh changes in memberships on boards and commissions for our next April 28th meeting. I think Michael, you have one on parks. Is that correct? All right. Any other questions or comments regarding boards appointments?

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All right. Moving on. Questions regarding city council MNC log for our next council meeting. >> Yes, sir. Uh Jay, I was looking at the MNC 260304

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0304 talks about the uh hub uh contract uh that we're doing and I was looking through the MC uh MNC. Um what kind of followup um are we going to have with the scope of work that they're going to be doing

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with the economic department? >> You mean on an ongoing basis? >> Yes, sir. staff's going to be working, you know, on ongoing basis with them. Do we have uh is Jessica here? Rogers? >> Yes, I'm sorry. >> There she is. Jessica, if you can provide a little

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more info on that. >> Okay. And maybe this also can be an IR. I mean, I didn't want to throw throw a monkey wrench in what was going on today. >> No. Um, so part of that process, the RFP process is again, we went through and developed a scope of work. So, the contractor will be building out a

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program with our team um that'll be facilitating work with small contractors to get them prepared to bid on city projects. So, there's multiple um components to that. Some of us how how to properly bid, how to prop get financial bonding, how to get insurance,

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all the various components. And so, um once we execute that contract, we'll be working through the detail criteria and components of of what that would would look like. >> And and there'll be ongoing reporting. >> Yeah. And there'll be ongoing reporting as well and progress made and um KPIs for for um contractors that are able to

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go through that program um and how successful they are in in bidding on city projects. >> Okay. I guess when I think would we develop a a work with when we have different individuals that's going through the process when look at the uh

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the MNC it talks about most of these small businesses are not getting uh work because related to bonding and insurance which you just talked about as they are working through that or we're going to have a commitment with the city of Fort Worth that as they're working through this process that we're going to also

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allow them to do work >> they would still have to participate they through through the bidding process. They would still be eligible to bid on the the goal of the program would be get them ready to win a bid with the city of Fororth. So, this would set them up to hopefully be more successful in

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that. >> Okay. So, I think I would want to see someone that participates in that program um the checks and balances of when they actually win bids with the city of for up. >> Yeah, that'll be part of all the requirements to see how they're how well the program is working.

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>> All right. Thanks, Any other questions on this? Okay, I think we're good. All right, next up we have presentation for Trinity Metro about uh updates to the textural extension project transit orient development opportunities.

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Richard Andreski or both Richard Andreski and Anlandos where you see one you see us both right. Uh it's a pleasure to be with you this morning um chair council um city manager Chapa we we uh wanted to update you this

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morning on some progress we're making with the text rail extension into the medical district as well as our transitoriented development efforts in addition to being joined by net lenderos we have Mike Brendan with us today and Reed Lam from our leadership team

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we are uh transforming Trinity Metro into a a modern full-ervice organization to support our growing city and to continue to drive economic development. Um, our city is growing. Um, innovation is one of our um, core values at Trinity

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Metro in terms of thinking differently about how we deliver service every day. And I'm proud to say that in the four years I've been with Trinity Metro, we've made a lot of progress in uh, building um, support for and driving ridership. We've done that through focus

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on the customer experience, reinventing some bus services, uh focusing on reliability and safety, and um again reaching out to people who may have not tried transit before. And I'm I'm pleased to say we're making substantial

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progress in that respect. Um still some work to do. Our um success in large part comes from um the phenomenal response we've received with Texrail. So Texrail is only about um coming up uh

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about seven years at this point and that service has for the first time reached new markets in Tarant County. So you'll recall before TER we were more or less a a a city of Fort Worth centered organization. Um, the success of Texra

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Rail is not just about airport access. It's really about everyday mobility. And what we see and I see as a daily rider are people using this service to reach jobs in our downtown business district, but also using it for just about every everyday purposes. We see weekend

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ridership is some of the strongest uh ridership days of the week. Um, the growth story doesn't show any signs of abating. We have seen 15 to 20% compounded annual growth and I'm pleased to say that trend continues this year.

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Um March and April um rather February and March were some of the highest ridership months on record yet. Um our um February numbers were upif uh 20%, our March numbers were up uh 15%.

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Um a lot of that is driven by the reliability of the service and the frequency. We offer 30-minut service all day. Um but the success of Texra rail is measured more than ridership. What we see through some um financial analysis

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is that text rail is generating tremendous economic returns. Uh first um we see one in three riders in our city using text rail or TR every year. So that was an eye openener for us when we did that survey. Um understanding the

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market, who's using it. Um I think some folks may may have expected a number of maybe it's one in 10, maybe it's one in 20 with one in three people using it um annually. Um we're pretty proud of that number. And when we do polling and ask

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folks um sort of their attitudes about Trinity Metro and about rail, what we see is that um about four and five residents are expressing a strong desire to invest more in our rail service. Um I'm pleased to say that when we

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delivered Tex Rail in 2019, we did so um under budget and on schedule. That project uh was delivered $80 million under budget and that was the seed capital we needed to begin the work on our text rail medical district extension. Now this project was long uh

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promised and we are um on on the eve of breaking ground uh this year. That project will extend service from TMP station into the medical district uh at Mistletoe Boulevard just behind Beller Scott and White. Uh the project um I'm

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pleased to say with uh many of you around this table uh RTC members that we were able to secure the missing piece of the pu the funding puzzle and we now have a fully funded project. Um you know this is a high impact

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extension. um it reaches a district with 50,000 jobs, a 247 district. Um but you know, it's also about the development opportunities. And so um one of the reasons we brought Mike Brennan on board is to begin building those strategic

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partnerships. And you're going to hear more from Annette in a moment about um leveraging not only the the the transportation asset that we have, but uh beginning to redevelop a lot of our properties throughout Fort Worth. We've done um an economic impact analysis and

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I'll I'll bring you some data points. Uh the first is around property values. Uh we did a case study around the grapevine uh main street to what we found was property values increased at twice the rate if you were within walking distance of tax rail versus a citywide average.

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We also looked at sales tax revenue. And when we looked at sales tax revenue, sales tax revenue doubled, basically grew at twice the pace if you were within walking distance of the station versus the citywide average. So, we have good data points that tell us that, you know, investing in rail is is a a very

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smart economic move. Um, this is a a a shot of the the new station at Mistletoe Boulevard looking north. uh this uh these these two tracks and and platform will be built on property being donated by Beller Scott and White. We're quite

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proud of that partnership. Um we do at this point believe uh not believe we are um planning to break ground at the end of the year uh with service beginning in 2029. And I'll transition over to Annette at this

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point, but our our our hope here for this project and really all of the investments we're making is to um catalyze highquality economic development around our train stations. The Mistletoe Boulevard is one

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opportunity you're going to hear more. Uh I'm particularly excited about all that's happening um near TMP station and our Fort Worth Central Station. um over a billion dollars in development in the pipeline and our new switchyard district. So with that, I'm going to hand it over to Annette Landeros, our

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chief strategy officer. >> Thank you. Thank you and good morning everybody. We are so excited to be here with you to share a little bit more. As as we mentioned, Texra Rail is getting ready to break ground on extension and each station that already exists and will exist is a prime opportunity for

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our city to to experience economic development through transit oriented development. Trinity Metro for the last three years has been on a journey to change people's experience with public transit on Trinity Metro. Uh to help

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people understand where the buses go, how to use the trains, and to provide more than just a ride between point A and B, but an experience that people actually look forward to and are excited to bring their friends and families on as well. We've really excited through

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the color-coded lines, which you see here, the orange line, which everyone knows connects downtown to the stockyards. Um, we've been able to do just that. Uh, and the community has responded. We're thrilled to say that folks are starting to understand where transit goes. They understand how to

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weave it into their to their lives to their own benefit, and they're really embracing it in a new way. Uh here you'll see our blue line which it's not uncommon now because we ride the blue line to events at the Omni potentially lunchons where you don't want to

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necessarily take your car and wait for the valet. Folks are hopping on the blue line because they know that it stops right there in front of where they need to get to. So we're excited to say that the city of Fort Worth is is responding in such a positive way. Now, we are

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we've been saying this. We're more than just buses and trains and and bikes and vans. We we can be so much more than that to the city. We are about economic development. We are about creating great places. We want to enhance the way that

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people live, work, and play 247 in their neighborhoods as well. For those who are unfamiliar with transit oriented development, that means just building homes, shops, and amenities close to transit stations. It makes people um really interested in living near

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transit, but it also makes it easier for them to use transit in their daily lives. The goal is to create convenient, connected, and less car dependent communities so that folks that may not necessarily want to drive and may not necessarily want to get on highways um

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have the opportunity to move around. great cities choose to invest in mobility and as one of the fastest growing cities in the country, we believe this is going to be one of the big priorities for our city and train is excited to work alongside you um to complete that vision to to really come

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up with that vision and bring it to fruition. Fort Worth is rich in opportunity and mobility can really be that bridge to bring all of the goals that you all have for our city to fruition. Trinity Metro also has vision. We have um actually quite a big a vision

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of all the ways that we can improve our city and and help people with a quality of life and mobility as well. We are excited to say that transit oriented development is starting to become a topic of discussion. This is something that naturally happens in other cities

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when a new train station um is built that developers understand and really fight over the opportunity for proximity next to transit. that has not necessarily come to fruition here locally, but we are thrilled to say that we've got a lot of regional partners

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focused on transit oriented development. We ourselves have started a TOD study uh just actually last month that we're kicking off. The NCT COG is also um starting a TOD study on TR sta uh stations and that is in the proposal

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phase. And the city of Fort Worth has a TOD study that's also in the proposal phase. It's going to have a focused look at the north side text rail station and uh proximity for pedestrians and being able to access that state station. I share that with you all to ensure that y'all are aware that this is a big topic

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of conversation across the region, but to also to ensure that you that you know that we are all collaborating. We have been meeting with all of our partners that are a part of these studies to make sure that we can scope our projects and the timelines to make sure that we're all using our resources wisely. Uh

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specific to the Trinity Metro TOD study scope, we are looking at our text rail stations uh and also two bus terminals. We are going to be seeking public and private engagement to understand what the community is interested in but also what the commercial market is looking

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for. There is a real estate market analysis that will be conducted about around the land that surrounds our text rail stations. Here you see Merkantile Station. I love this photo because it it screams opportunity to me and I hope it does to you as well. We'll also be

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looking at best practices in TOD codes. Uh what the opportunity is for multimodal connectivity in these stations and uh existing to plants that already exist. Uh from that study, we hope to provide an implementation framework that can be um shared with our

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development community and for any public and private partners that may be interested in taking this work on in the future. We are thrilled to have an all-star team leading the Triny Metro TOD study in addition to our vice president of planning, Tara Crawford. As Rich mentioned, we've brought Mike

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Brennan uh on as our VP of economic development. Phil Dupler, our director of planning as a project manager. We are working with Dunaway here locally. Uh Shannon Bearden and Steven Cook are helping with that. And of course, in close collaboration with our city partners, Eric Flatiger is representing

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on the leadership team as well to make sure that we're all um moving forward in unison. We feel like the TOD prime opportunities, all of the stations uh are filled with opportunity, but we really feel like due to development that's occurring um already that the

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stockyards medical district and the newly named Switchyard District, which is the downtown innovation district, are really primed with opportunities. So, we're excited to be having conversations with our city partners and and the development community to see what those

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really um might come to be. Our hope is that in in 101 15 years from now, we'll be standing before you celebrating the successes and that folks will be really eager to live near these uh rail stations and that it will really change and enhance the way uh the opportunities

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that people have to live near transit. And that concludes our presentation, but we are excited to answer any questions that you may have. >> Thank you, Rich. Council member Peoples has a question. >> So, I I think this presentation was great, but I will also tell you that

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workingclass residents were the core of of transit. And so, I hear all these great things that are happening in other neighborhoods. what are being done to take uh transit to the next level in

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workingclass neighborhoods specifically in the south and the east and in the near north side. >> Yeah, thank you for that uh question uh council member peoples. Um we um recently for example extended the the

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route 4 from um from the southside runs from the east and extended that over to Montgomery and serving the Dickies area. Uh that opened up uh opportunities within the cultural district and to access employment opportunities in that area. from a a more expansive view of

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what we can do to serve um our our historic and most loyal riders. Um there is an ongoing NCT COG project to redevelop um and to rebuild Lancaster Avenue. Um we uh want to be a part of that solution when that project is

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completed to enhance service in that corridor. uh which will likely include, this is just me, um we're a few years away from doing this, but um express and local patterns. So for folks that are traveling from more distant locations in Lancaster, they'd have a quicker trip to

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downtown. We also have a project um in development to connect um the Southeast community to Alliance. Um that project again is is probably a few years out but um what what that would include is a express bus to bring folks from the Dr.

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Dennis Duncan transfer center to uh downtown and then connecting to Alliance via the express lanes on I35. Uh and once in the once in the Alliance area we would have on demand services connecting people to employment opportunities. Beyond that we are reinvesting in our

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bus fleet. So, every year we're purchasing 15 new uh buses to replace an aging fleet. And those buses will come with all the latest features. Uh upgraded seating, lighting, um um just a more modern vehicle. Um and and we will continue to invest in our bus fleet. Um

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those buses um are not dedicated to any one neighborhood. They do go out every day on different routes. So, some of those new buses will will show up in neighborhoods um that you represent. >> Did I miss anything? Council member Hill and then

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>> I I'd only add that that's also why we included our two bus terminals because we recognize that focusing only on rail would miss those riders. So the two bus terminals that we own as well would be included. >> Council Hill and Council Beck. >> Thank you both. Uh, a couple questions. One, do you have any fear that we're

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going to outpace wrership with the amount of expansion that we're doing? So, cost analysis on expansion versus the amount of ridership we have. >> Are we talking systemwide or are we talking about the rail project? >> Um, probably systemwide.

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>> Yeah. So, um what what we're seeing is um we're we're seeing sustained growth in interest in when we provide a service that people need and it's it's a quality service, it's safe, reliable,

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comfortable. Um it doesn't take a lot of marketing actually to interest people in trying it. So, I I think we're we're we're sort of playing a a longer game here in the near term. I'm I'm I'm sort of benchmarking to how other systems are doing nationally and we have seen among

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all of the significant mid and large cities the quickest rebound in ridership post post pandemic. So we are now exceeding um by a significant margin the highs before before COVID. That's not true

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nationally. So I'm I'm pleased with the progress. I also think though benchmarking to our population, I think there's a lot of room for um additional growth. Um one of the challenges of of our wonderful and beautiful city is that we've we sort of grown outward and and

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so what you'll see is greater density in in cities of our size elsewhere in the country. um sort of the I think the long-term play here is to lean into these TOD opportunities and to put some of our sort of parking lots back into

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productive economic use. I'll say one more thing. We are also mindful that um this is about not just about mobility but it's about talent attraction and retention in our city. And what we see in other places again benchmarking is

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that you do reach different types of talent sets, talent pools when you have high quality transit links. And so we're supporting we believe that our mission is bigger than than the mobility mission per se. >> Yeah, that answers that. Um and

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secondly, so when you look at tax rail versus our bus system, is what is there a difference in the fairbox recovery versus subsidy ratios? I mean, do you see a difference in those two products? >> Could you ask the question a little bit? >> People are actually paying to get on

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text rail versus the amount it cost. Is there a ratio that we try to aim for? You know, I guess text rail and then separately the bus line and then how do we reconcile that as we expand? >> Yeah, sustainability, financial sustainability is is actually a

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something in our that we've focused on in our strategic plan. That is the essential question for our agency which is how do we how do we grow and innovate at the same time that we want to contain costs and manage the the public dollar. And so we we have done um quite a bit of

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restructuring since I arrived here uh four years ago around uh if a service doesn't perform and we have clearly delineated thresholds for that. uh we have our annual board retreat where we gather our board and we go through the metrics and um in in the four years I've been here five bus routes have been

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eliminated and that was um not an easy decision but it was a straightforward decision um based on the metrics. So yes, we're we're always evaluating productivity. What I would say is in terms of the user paying more um the the near-term name of the game for us is to

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build u awareness and interest in in what we're doing and to simplify the the transit journey and and we we had a more complicated fair structure when I arrived and one of the things we've done is simplified so that one fair entitles you to ride any of our services. In the

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long term, I could see an opportunity, for example, with airport access, right? Airport access um is is a deal right now. We're going to continue to to have that in the near term, that $2 fair into the airport, but that might be a long-term opportunity where we we might want to increase fairs um given the the

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tremendous value that we're offering there into the airport. >> That's great. Thank you, Richard. Council Rebecca and Council Flores, >> I love that $2 fair. Please don't. That's my fa It's my favorite fair. Um uh thank you for this and thank you for all

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of your hard work. This is um going to be such a huge impact for uh the city, not just the medical district, but the city of Fort Worth. Um as our medical district continues to expand. I'd invite all of my colleagues to drive down Magnolia right now and um or Rosedale

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and 8th Avenue. Um sorry about the construction, but that's because we've got worldclass u medical centers expanding here. So, we really do need this to get folks from the airport um to to our medical center, our job center, but I know that's not the um the medical

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center or the medical district is not the um final terminus for this particular rail line. And so, we've talked a lot about this. We've talked about this is a pretty expensive extension because of where it lands in the city and right away. Um, but can you

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uh tell us ultimately where this line is going to go and how we're going to get there so we can be looking at the future? >> Yeah, absolutely. So, next we're excited to say that um our hope is to go to TCU. We actually have property there on Barry and so we that would be basically

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starting over with fundraising and making sure we have the funding to be able to move forward with that after this extension project. But as of recently, um, as the the city is is growing, and Rich mentioned a little bit further out, a conversation has started on what it would look like to continue

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moving towards Tarlton, uh, because that rail line does go towards Tarlton. So, we are currently in discussions with them. We've traveled to Stevenville to talk to the university president. They're very excited about the possibility what that would look like. Development is happening very quickly in

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that area. So we are trying to do just kind of a scan of what feasibility would look like and then that could potentially be be the next u or I guess the final point moving south. >> So what I'm hearing is uh this will be our university line. It'll connect our

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downtown&M TCU and >> we are really excited about the possibility of Fort Worth having one rail line that connects four universities UTA downtown Texas&M TCU and Tarlton. By the way, Tarlton and&M being in the same system, there are

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going to be professors that potentially teach at both. So, what a um what a win-win for them as well. This could be a really uh unique value proposition in the state of Texas. >> Thank you. Just remember your promise that we would break ground. I wouldn't have to get reelected before we broke ground. So, I'm going to hold you to

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that. >> Please do. >> Thanks, Councelor Flores and Council Nettles. >> Thank Thank you, Mayor. Uh and thank you, Rich and Annette for the presentation. One of my questions was already taken care of, but I have two others that aren't necessarily related to this. I just wanted to follow up. Um, I know that I had spoken, I think, to

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Christine Black or Reed Lean some time back, actually late November of 2024 when there was an announced schedule change due to wrership patterns that affected uh some DFW airport, you know, workers, especially on the tail end of the day, you know, and corresponded with

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them, got some information and, you know, um shared that with them. have the how often do you do reviews or you know monitoring of wrership patterns so that you might update that because still from time to time you know I'll run into an airport worker and they'll say wish that

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was back um first I'll say that thank you for supporting us in that really difficult decision right because whenever you take or shift resources from one time to another someone is always impacted I'll highlight that that change is

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probably a big part of our continuing growth story. The fact that we're seeing 15 to 20% compounded annual growth is a direct result in my opinion of that frequency. Um a as to re-evaluating ridership, we do periodically canvas our riders. I don't know that we've done

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that since we made the change. So we'll we'll take that as a takeaway from this meeting. Um, I'll also say that we wanted to be judicious and that was a roughly a net zero change in terms of financial impact. So, as we talk about sort of

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long-term opportunities, um, I I I do think part of it is about, you know, where to spend that public dollar um, and and the best use of certainly late night service would carry some people, but it's right now about uh maximizing impact. But we will we will take away

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the the followup to to go back to the writers. >> Yeah, that that's acceptable. Then my last question is uh dealing with FIFA, what kind of PSA or messaging on the monitors do you plan to have for any expected wrership from people visiting, you know, Fort Worth for FIFA?

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>> Oh, that little thing. >> Yeah, we're really excited and and gearing up for for World Cup. Um we are going to have all hands on decks specifically on game days. There is going to currently we're we're hoping to launch a uh a website that is going to

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describe all the slight changes in in our service that are going to be happening. But truly, we are maintaining all of our regular service um on non-game days. Everything will possibly look just slightly different for TR riders on on the actual nine game days

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because it's going to be focused on moving everyone to towards centerport which then there will be bust down to the game. And I know there's going to be a lot of communications on both sides of the Metroplex about that from Dart and Turing Metro. We're both responsible for training folks in. Um, but for non-game

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days, it should be regular regular business as usual. You'll see probably, we hope, a lot more people riding, potentially some tourists that are looking to our our locals and regular riders for clarification and wayfinding. We will be out on the system helping

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with that as well. But aside from just seeing more people out on transit, um on non-game days, everything should be the same. >> We will also have three enhanced shuttles. I will say on non-game days because we are um we've procured charter

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buses to assist with game day potential uh influxes. We are currently finalizing details on non-game day shuttles that will connect potential areas of interest. So there will be an um a charter or a charter shuttle connecting

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Arlington directly to the stockyards um potentially through downtown also downtown to far north Tanganger and the BIES area and then also a shuttle taking folks to the Botanic Garden and the zoo. So we're trying to connect uh most

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frequented areas for tourism with these shuttle these charter buses that are already procured on non-game days. So there'll be more information that will be a premium service. Um so it will be more than $2, but we do feel that with um potential increased uh Uber rates

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that this will be a familyfriendly option for a lot of people. >> All right. Thank you both. >> Council, >> thank you, Mayor. I had a couple of comments and I just want to highlight a couple of things that you said today. Rich, really appreciate your work that you're doing um with Trinity Metro. I

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mean, when we first got elected, at least me when I first got elected, there was a a negative stigma about transiting forward. And over the years, you have made uh significant gains. And I tell people all the time, in order to um turn

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a ship, you can't make quick turns. You have to be steady. And so, I think you guys have been steady. And I really appreciate sitting on the board. Thank you for the opportunity. I was really interested when you talked about the Dennis Duncan uh transit about getting uh people from the east side down to the

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alliance area. We talked about that four years ago. So, I'm excited to see that come online. So, I'm expecting to hear more information about that because I think it's important that those as Deborah people talked about those that are infranchised or um in popularities

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or areas that can't get to uh the rail that they have access still to get to work. Um, one of the things I have seen you do is bringing a net on with chief strategy, kind of figure out what the future looks like, as well as Mike Brandon talking about economic

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development because basically transit is not just getting people from place to place, but it's also creating jobs, creating opportunities, um, and creating a workforce and attracting talent. As you talked about, the other thing that we have to offer at Trinity Metro is the on demand services. going to your

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doorstep and getting you to a location without having to go to stop by stop. And so there are a lot of things that Trinity Metro is doing. And I think it may be incumbent of us to also give highlights of what we're doing as a um

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um organization all over uh for some of the council that on. And I would also encourage all of us to go on the rail uh and experience that ride from downtown to uh the airport. Uh maybe we can do

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two or three groups here, but really appreciate the opportunity to serve on the board. Thank you for the work that you're doing. >> Thank Thank you for those comments, Council Member Nettles. >> Council member Crane. >> Uh yeah, thanks, Mayor. Uh Rich and thanks for the presentation and being

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here today. Um we've talked a lot. I want to commend you, Rich, when you came in. Um, the system itself, I think, had long, uh, suffered from, uh, and I do thank the mayor for putting me on the board as well with Chris, but the system had

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suffered from just looking and patching together networks to try and get um, dependent writers from place to place and hadn't been fully visionary. There were pieces and parts obviously with Textrail and TR. Um, but what I see now is that you've come in and been very visionary. We've we've had lots of talks

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about this as part of it. You've got Annette on board, you got Reed over here, you got Mike Brennan and really looking longterm about the organization and really trying to while we need to take care of those uh transit dependent writers, but also looking at what opportunities are there for choice riders. Um and I think all great cities

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are starting to look well great cities have choice, you know, ability for choice riders to get out of their car and take the transit where they can. And I just want to give you example. I sat next to the owner of uh K the kitchen source this weekend at the Kasmanana

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Gayla and he is a choice rider has lived driven his car all his life but now lives downtown gets in transit rides it to his stores rides to Dallas and goes to his stores but um spoke highly of it and convince family members and other things and so while we have to continue

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to balance that dependent writer the choice writer is where this is is going and what we talked about uh the different stops that we'd like to see as the text rail is extended I think attracts that and the development the economic development piece. So I just want to commend you on that and and thank you for being a visionary.

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>> Thank you so much. I appreciate those comments. >> Any other questions from council? Thank you both. Maybe I'll just mention the conversation I've had with Rich. Um maybe along the lines of what council peoples mentioned are those core writers. There are a variety of

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services. If you Google senior writing services across Tarant County, you can probably come up with 10 to 15 that different municipalities pay into. Some are private and I'm really interested in how to better maybe integrate those into what we're doing with Trinity Metro. So, some of it may not even be reinventing the wheel or expanding zip zones, but

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maybe it's the way we market, especially with our health care systems, the way we integrate those private pay providers. Um, I just I've I'm growing more concerned in conversations with um area leaders that our seniors are more and more isolated and if we can find ways through our own technology and through

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an app to get them moving around Fort Worth and also to the point that Deborah made these are these are needed services for for health care to meet with family members etc. So that's also on the city of Fort Worth and I maybe it's a an area that we ask TPW to really partner our

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neighborhood services on what is in existence, how can we better communicate those opportunities to our residents and if we need to change things as a city, let's work on doing that together. Then you can work on getting them on a text rail to the airport and all those things as a second piece. But um I think there we can really work together to do great

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things much like you have with our college students and high school students. I just heard a story last week about a student that uses um Trinity Metro to get to to Pascal High School um because their family moved much much further away. So, those systems work and I'm I just really appreciate your partnership and you've always shown a

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willingness to do so. Thank you for these updates. >> Much mayor. >> Any other questions? Otherwise, we're good. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you being here. >> Okay. Next step is a is a presentation of a proposed economic development agreement and Sheree Gordon is going to

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walk us through that. >> Good morning, mayor and council. >> Good morning. >> We're awake. We promise. >> The purpose of this presentation is proposed abatement for Celestica. See if I can operate.

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Celesteica is electronics manufacturing company originally a subsidiary of IBM and with approximately 30,000 employees. The project includes new facilities for advanced manufacturing of electronics equipment. There are two sites at Alliance.

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The company does have a lease in place for one of those sites, but remains in active competition for the broader project, determining the use and scale of the first site and the addition of the second site for manufacturing. The project sites are at Alliance Center

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North. This is east of Peraufield Fort Worth Alliance Airport and I35, south of 114 and north of 170. project site once one at Alliance Center North 4 is 15301 North Beach. It's council district 10.

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That's an existing building shown in red. Project site two is Alliance Center North 6. This is a approximately 1 million square foot planned building that's shown as Greenfield on this side in red.

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The company commitments. Celestica proposes to develop two sites for electronics manufacturing. Minimum capital investment is 876 million. You can see the breakdown of each site and the totals here.

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This is an the totals are 400 million in real property and 476 in BPP. This is an all or nothing deal. The company has to deliver on both sites in order to receive the incentives with a minimum of 1,715

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full-time jobs. To give a sense of the scale of this project, this is 40% more capital investment than the Bell project that we previously presented and more than three times the jobs. So, it's one we are as enthusiastic and

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excited about as we were on that project. The site one has a minimum of almost 500 jobs by the end of 2028 and a minimum of 1,225 additional jobs by the end of 2029 with an average salary of 75,000 and

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with small business goal at 30%. The proposed incentive term is a 10-year tax abatement agreement to abate 80% of incremental real and BPP property taxes subject to performance requirements. Failure to meet the minimum capital

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investment results in a proportional reduction of the abatement rate for up to 10%. Less than the minimum then results in default. Failure to meet the jobs commitment or the salary requirement of 75,000 results in the forfeite of the annual abatement. There

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is an additional salary requirement for any year in which more than 50% of individual jobs earn less than 60,000. The abatement rate is reduced by half which would result in a 40% abatement. Additional rights requirements and penalties as negotiated

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for our strategic alignment. This project delivers solid job growth and meets the definition of a mega project based on number of jobs over 1500 and amount of investment over 250 million. And it is in our target industry. It's electronics manufacturer. It serves

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several of our target industries in smart building, aerospace and defense and health tech. for the broader competitive landscape. We are in active competition both with domestic and international

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locations. Those competing locations are competing with business factors such as logistics, power supply, and utility, access to the customers, and the labor pool workforce. The scale of the project involves major long-term implications. This is a major

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bet on where they're going to choose to operate this project. The incentives play an important part in boosting the competitiveness for Fort Worth in order to win this project. The project summary is 876 million in capital investment, 1,715

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full-time jobs with an average salary at a minimum of 75,000, 30% local hiring, and an enhanced salary requirements. The estimated incentive is 41.7 million. That's 30.6 million at net present

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value. City participation at 3.5% and the public private ratio at 28.8 to1. The project is the source of its own incentive cash deposit by year 1. The lifetime value of the incentives are to be covered seven years into the 10-year term. The net tax revenue is at

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10.4 4 million and the net new taxes at 6 million over the 10-year period. Recommendation and next step is to enter into the 10-year tax abatement up to 80% on real and BPP for M andc consideration on May 12th and open it for any

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questions. >> Questions from council. >> Thank you. You're up again, aren't you? >> I am up again. doing some great work with the um EDP and partners in our um waiting for that

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to sorry to to load in our audience. I did want to mention that we do have some representatives here today from Celestea and the company as well. We have another um proposed tax abatement agreement. This is with Morand.

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Morand US Holdings is an Australian aerospace and defense company currently operating in Southeast Fort Worth. They repaired defense support equipment for Lheed Martin and are transferring to a lease location. They have secured additional defense contracts and are

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expanding their operations. They would grow from 15 employees today to 150 employees and include new manufacturing operations. Their project location is at Campus Park at 2248 South Loop 820 in Council

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District 8. This is to give a um a little bit more of a close-up view. This site is and has been zoned industrial. It's east on 35 West and on the I20 frontage. The company proposes to develop a

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facility for airspace manufacturing. The minimum capital investment is 31 million. That's by the end of this year in 2026, 11 in REL and 20 in BPP. It's a minimum of 150 full-time jobs, 40 by the end of the first operating year in 2027,

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and ramping up to 150 jobs by the end of 2030. The minimum average salary is 80,000 small business firm goal at 30%. We're recommending a 10-year tax abatement agreement to abate 50% of the

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real and BPP property taxes. Agreement would be subject to the performance requirement. Failure to meet minimum capital investment results in default. Failure to meet full jobs and minimum average salary results in forfeite of the annual abatement.

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This checks a lot of the boxes in a project and what we look for. This is an opportunity to bring highquality well-paid jobs to Southeast Fort Worth. It's a aerospace and defense manufacturer. It's a supplier in our target industry. Delivers solid job growth. It's also a

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part Miranda is a part of a larger capital group in Australia. CPE capital may have other companies interested in US operations. This project is in active competition. The competitive landscape competing loca

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under consideration. The alternative locations have access to key customers primarily locked. They look at strategic advantages and cost savings. The location decision is different for 150 versus 15. In other words, because

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they've operated 15 today in Fort Worth doesn't automatically mean they're going to put the new operation with manufacturing and 150 people in Fort Worth. So, we're an active competition and the incentive helps us to get to the scale of what is delivered and the new

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manufacturing project summary. Again, 31 million in capital investment, 150 minimum full-time jobs, 80,000 in average salaries. Public private participations 934,000

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in the incentive 685570 in net present value. City participation at 2.2% public private ratio 45.7 to1. Project's a source of its own incentive and cash positive by year 1. The value of the incentives are covered five years

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into the 10-year term. At a 50% um proposed incentive, the net new taxes are that same value of 934,000 and NPV of 685570. Our recommendations and next steps are to enter into a 10-year tax abatement

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agreement up to 50% for consideration on May 12th and open for any questions. >> Thank you, Sheree. Any questions or comments from council? When should you know about both of these opportunities? >> What's that now? >> When will we know about both of these

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opportunities? >> It will definitely be after, but the consideration of the incentives is a big part of their decision um package. So, it'll definitely be after our MNC on May 12th. >> Okay. You don't have a timeline in mind right now? >> No,

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>> I do not. I I know that we have uh members here from Celestica. >> Okay. >> And I can bring him up. I know they had their quarterly call and on their quarterly call they announced one billion I think he had mentioned um in investment um we're hopeful that uh that

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would be in Fort Worth but again that decision is going to be dependent upon our ability to bring the incentives >> sure you can say hello welcome >> dear council dear mayor good morning I'm Alex Cheng on behalf of Celesteica happy to be here >> thank you

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>> so going back to your questions earlier this year in our public announcement. We have committed more than1 billion dollars of capital investments. And in a nutshell, we Celestica, we're the rocket fuel to the AI current boom. We're the

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fuel. We power all your uh applications on your phones. And so from a timetable point of view, we are actively exploring multiple options in Texas domestically and also internationally. That's our

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current global footprint from a time to decision. We're being chased by our major accounts to make decisions ASAP. So that's the not in the next week or so, but we're under a very strong sense

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of urgency to close our manufacturing investment commitment. So we definitely need to pull the trigger if you may. Thank you very much. We appreciate you being here. >> Any other questions?

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>> No, sir. I don't have any questions. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Sher. We appreciate you. >> Okay, council, we are three presentations and now to feature agenda items or reports requested from council members. Anybody like to start or have anything? Council Flores and Council

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Net. Well, I was just going to mention, mayor, while I was uh sitting in for you, and it may have been Chris's or someone else, so forgive me. I think there was an interest in an IR following our discussion on item 260056

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about uh getting what what city can do to compel uh you know, completion, you know, of said projects. And again, don't remember who mentioned that. Was that you Macy or Chris? Okay. Just wanted to make sure that that got articulated. That's all.

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>> Thank you, Carlos. Council Nettles. >> Yes. Uh I kind of want um IR on the oversight over the project managers who are selecting contractors on the city projects and that's in um TPW as well as

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um all departments. >> Council member Peoples, did you have one? >> Yes. I'd like to see an IR on the impact of SB840 and SB15 uh on our zoning plans. I I know what's happening in my district. I don't know what's happening in other districts. I

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just like an overall um IR on the total impact to the city if any. I miss anybody else? No. Um I have can one that could be an IR or a presentation that's up to staff. I just want an update on where we are in the literacy roundup and the city for Worth

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literacy efforts. I know that we've expanded across multiple sites um as soon as this summer and council may want to chime in on whether they prefer a presentation or an IR but we can work on that together and it probably needs to be pretty quickly since the summer is upon us. >> I would be really interested in hearing

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a presentation if that's possible um because they have expanded so much. So they're down in district six as well into Crowley. Thank you. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we're going to take a break and then I think council will eat and then go into

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council and then come back to executive session. Meeting is adjourned.